Record breaking Harrietts success at the NEMAA Relays

The last NEMAA meeting of the season at Jarrow saw the introduction of relay races for the first time - and so the stage was set for some record breaking performances... by the Sunderland women's team.

The first relay to be run was the 4x400. With 16 teams entered, the race was split in tw...

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Let the Games begin

You wouldn’t believe it with the lack of media coverage but the 31st Summer Olympics, the pinnacle of athletic competition, is about to begin. The event starts with the opening ceremony on Friday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where athletes from 206 countries will compete in 28 sports for 306 Gold me...

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HARRIERS ReMEMBER - PART TWO

By the members, for the members!

If I had a PB for every time I heard a person say ‘I want to join a running club, but I am scared!’ then I’d have an awful lot of PB’s, perhaps even as many as Steve McMahon has run this week! (Well done, had to get the easy plug in here somehow).

Th...

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A FOND FAREWELL TO WEARSIDE'S FAVOURITE IRISHMAN!

Wearside’s favourite Irishman has finally hung up his Royal Blue vest as he prepares to move on to an exciting new chapter in his life.

Liam Roarty has brightened up the Harriers with his cheeky smile and Irish charm over the last three years as he studied for a degree at Sunderland Univer...

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WILSON DOMINATES TO TAKE FIRST SENIOR TITLE

Michael Wilson stole the Harriers Headline after a busy week of road and track racing by taking the Northern Senior 800m title at Sportcity, Manchester on Sunday.

The 20-year old Birmingham University student kicked hard off a slow early pace to win the final convincingly in 1:53.45, some ...

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1500 PB'S TUMBLE AT BMC MEETING

A quartet of Sunderland Harriers had good reason to be pleased with their night’s work at the BMC Regional Meeting at Chester-le-Street on Monday night.

Sparrow Morley, Mark Smith, Steve Rankin and Steve McMahon all took chunks off their previous best for the three and three-quarter lap ra...

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A CAPTAIN'S CORRESPONDENCE - CHAPTER THREE

“I don’t like it, but I guess things happen that way.” When Johnny Cash first came up with this lyric I highly doubt he was referring to finishing 2nd in the Edinburgh Half Marathon, but for me, it aptly sums up last week’s event.
The half marathon is a good old distance and it is worthy of...

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ALICE HEADS IMPRESSIVE LIST OF ROYAL BLUE PERFORMANCES

After the structure of the winter season, with NE Harrier cross-country leagues, Northern and National champs, followed by the road race, the summer is a more fluid affair as the diaspora of Sunderland Harriers extends to individual target races throughout the region and beyond.

Over the B...

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HARRIERS ReMEMBER - PART ONE

We all walk our own path through life. Each has a starting point and it is here that we, as runners, put on our running shoes for the journey ahead. Our entire history is made up with snapshots of reality, memories stitched together by a fine thread of fate and these fragments are pieced together...

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HAPPY 60TH TO A HARRIERS LEGEND

It’s a well-worn saying these days that the word ‘legend’ is bandied around far too easily. While that’s true, there can be no argument that ‘Legend’ is a perfect epithet for a club stalwart who celebrates his 60th birthday today: Glenn Forster.

For those who aren’t already aware of his m...

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